{"id":7061,"date":"2006-04-05T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:31:58","slug":"mccain-finds-that-the-far-right-is-hard-to-satisfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mccain-finds-that-the-far-right-is-hard-to-satisfy\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain finds that the far-right is hard to satisfy"},"content":{"rendered":"

John McCain doesn’t have a lot of experience pandering to the GOP’s religious right base. For years, he believed that the party should distance itself from “agents of intolerance.” All of that came to an end last week, of course, when McCain embraced Jerry Falwell<\/a> and announced that he no longer believed that the man who blamed 9\/11 on Americans and said we deserved the attacks is intolerant.<\/p>\n

But one thing McCain will likely learn pretty quickly is that the far-right is incredibly hard to please. For example, McCain already started subtly flip-flopping<\/a> on the so-called “Federal Marriage Amendment.” He used to believe the constitutional amendment is “antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans,” and now he believes he may support it after all.<\/p>\n

So, the right is thrilled with the change of heart, right? Wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins, who will be sharing a stage with Senator McCain at the Liberty University graduation, is calling on the Senator to support the Marriage Protection Amendment:<\/p>\n

“Although Senator McCain holds claim to the ‘Straight Talk Express,’ we are confused about his commitment to protect marriage. Two years ago, the Senator opposed a marriage amendment because he felt that state marriage amendments would survive federal court challenges. However, since then we’ve seen Nebraska’s marriage amendment struck down and other state amendments tied up in court.<\/p>\n

“Is the Senator backtracking from statements made two years ago on a marriage protection amendment? Now, he says he would support a marriage protection amendment but only if his own state’s amendment is struck down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCain is slowly taking up residence in “crazy base world<\/a>,” but he may find that his new buddies haven’t rolled out the welcome mat for him. They have several hoops for him to jump through, and appearing with Falwell and some cautious rhetoric about the FMA won’t be enough. The religious right wants full, unswerving allegiance. How far is McCain willing to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John McCain doesn’t have a lot of experience pandering to the GOP’s religious right base. For years, he believed that the party should distance itself from “agents of intolerance.” All of that came to an end last week, of course, when McCain embraced Jerry Falwell and announced that he no longer believed that the man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}